23 Quotes by Susan Stroman

She learned it all, she does it all. ... Everybody's doing everything. They're really singing on the set. We recorded their vocals with the orchestra before we shot, but then we had them sing live on the set, so that when I got to editing, I ... could use their recorded vocal or their live vocal.

Mel has written 10 new songs, and they're very funny. It's a year and a half away from opening on Broadway.

This had to be the musical. We never harkened back to the original movie.

This movie is like a little life raft for him. He laughs every time he comes to see it.

Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.